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Ben Wheatley’s 2016 film ‘High-Rise’, based on the cult novel by J.G. Ballard, centres around a fictional high-rise building in London’s docklands, in which the inhabitants gradually descend into debauched anarchy in a manner that, it is implied, is compelled by the nature of the building itself.

The original novel was intended as a social commentary on the kind of architecture designed by Erno Goldfinger and others during the 1960/70s that had the intention of shaping and influencing the behaviour of inhabitants in a new form of urban living.

It was featured prominently in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian film ‘Brazil’, as the setting for the surreal and Kafka-esque ‘Department of Records’ in which Jonathan Pryce’s character finds himself at the centre of a bureaucratic nightmare.

It is most widely known for playing the part of Nakatomi Plaza in the 1988 action film ‘Die Hard’, in which the building was targeted by terrorists on Christmas Eve. Filming was undertaken whilst parts of the building were still under construction. The scenes of the building’s destruction were filmed using a scalemodel.

The building was cast as The Bramford in Roman Polanski’s 1968 paranoid thriller ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ starring Mia Farrow. It is also infamous for being the former residence of John Lennon who was shot dead in 1980 on the street outside.

Timberline Lodge is located within the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon, roughly 60 miles east of Portland. Local artisans built and furnished the lodge during the Great Depression and it was constructed between 1936 and 1938 by the WorksProgress Administration.

The lodge was used as the exteriorlocation for the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic ‘The Shining’ in which Jack Nicholson stars as a writer descending into madness. In the film the hotel is supposedly built on an Indian burial ground.

In 1971, Stanley Kubrick used the Tavy Bridgearea, as well as Southmere Lake, as the setting for his surreal dystopian film ‘A Clockwork Orange’, which depicted the estate as a bleak futuristlandscape roamed by violent gangs of ‘droogs’.

The car park featured prominently in Mike Hodge’s 1971 classic ‘Get Carter’ in which Michael Caine took on local gangsters and crooked architects, one of whom plans to open a swanky restaurant-bar on the top floor. Despite being heralded as a landmark example of the Brutalistform, and coming to be known as the ‘Get Carter Car Park’, it was demolished in 2010 to be replaced by a new shopping complex.

Griffith Observatory is positioned on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. The building was designed by the astronomer Russell Porter who wanted a domed observatory that offered exceptional rooftop views. It was built inexpensively using concrete and steel, with the domes made of copper.

The design was an amalgamation of grand and monumental styles which one journalist at the time compared to a ‘Roman temple, Moorish mosque or mausoleum’, and is today seen as an emblem of Los Angeles.

The observatory featured in two key scenes of the iconic 1955 film ‘Rebel Without a Cause’. A bust of its star James Dean is located outside the observatory.

The Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) Building, more commonly known as the MI6 Building, is the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, situated on the Albert Embankment section of the River Thames next to Vauxhall Bridge.

It has featured prominently in several recent films of the James Bond franchise, including ‘The World Is Not Enough’ in 1999 when part of the building appeared to be blown up in a terrorist attack, again in 2012’s ‘Skyfall’, and 2015’s ‘Spectre’ in which it was portrayed as a ruin awaiting demolition.

It is popularly known as the ‘Ghostbusters Building’ as it featured prominently in the classic 1984 film starring Bill Murray. Despite being synonymous with the film, it is actually portrayed as being taller and with a different roofdesign.

The White House is shown in the 1996 blockbuster 'Independence Day' being destroyed by an alien spaceship, in an iconic moment that would inspire countless films thereafter to incorporate the destruction of other famous landmarks.

As an icon of 1950s Los Angeles, the building has featured heavily in pop culture, including the films ‘Mars Attacks!’, ‘Into the Night’, ‘Stripped to Kill’, ‘Breathless’, ‘California Girls’, ‘2012’, ‘Iron Man 2’, ‘Get Shorty’, ‘Volcano’, and ‘Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles’.